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Originally Posted by Rapscallion St Croix
The only reason the USPS is in debt is because in 2008 Congress mandated that they had to pre-fund future retiree health benefits for the next 75 years and do so by 2018.
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It is absurd to suggest that the USPS not be required to prefund future retirement benefits. They are a real cost to the taxpayers. I retired from the Federal Government 11 years ago and have already collected almost as much money in my pension as I did in salary during my entire career. No wonder people don't like unions. The postal union actually wants you to believe that the USPS pays for itself, but they only want to count their current operating expenses with no regard for future retiree benefits. That is laughable.